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Guyana Posters
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.
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geography > South America > GUYANA < social studies
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The Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously known as British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America, sitting on the Guiana Shield. Guyana was originally a Dutch colony, became a British possession by 1815, and granted independence in 1966. Guyana is bordered on the west by Venezuela, the south by Brazil and on the east by Suriname. The capital and largest city is Georgetown, named after King George III.
Guyana is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean, the independent nations, both mainland and islands, of the Caribbean region that are English-speaking. The region is also referred to as the British West Indies.
Guyana, the third smallest South American (S.A.) nation (after Uruguay and Suriname), is also one of four non Spanish speaking S.A. country - the others are Brazil (Portuguese) Suriname (Dutch) and French Guiana (French).
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Kaieteur Falls on the Potaro River, is located in Guyana's Kaieteur National Park. The area is also claimed by Venezuela. Kaieteur Falls at 822 feet is about five times higher than Niagara Falls and about two times the height of the Victoria Falls located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa.
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William Henry Hudson
b. 8-4-1841; Buenos Aires, Argentina
d. 8-18-1922; London
William Henry Hudson, the son of U.S. settlers in Argentina, is best remembered as the author of the 1904 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. It was made into a movie .
Hudson was also a naturalist and ornithologist who as instrumental in the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s-1930s.
William Henry Hudson quotes ~
• “We know that our senses are subject ot decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't care.”
• “You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”
• “I... thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!”
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